Because some people spend all day adding their commentary to the videos and they wish to be paid for that commentary. I think that's fair. They paid for the game, and the gamer videos double up as advertisements.
I don't buy games without checking out the game-play on youtube first (actual game-play, not trailers) and the commentary is a good indicator of whether the game is enjoyable.
Actually, given that you could extrapolate most people's identities from the data mentioned (postcode, gender and age), this sale would be illegal under EU data protection laws.
There's an increasing amount of content that you can't view without DRM support
I don't want that content if it is ruined by DRM.
and there is a movement afoot in the news world to investigate DRM for protecting online news content.
They are a bunch of twisting lying agenda driven scumbags who concentrate on crime and terrorism far too much anyway, let them destroy themselves with DRM and perhaps something better will emerge.
Bright argues that if HTML5 does not support DRM, then content providers will move their content away from open standards and implement it with native apps
Good, they can take their crap and stick it where I don't want it because if it's DRM'ed then I don't want it, so keep the DRM the hell away from my browser.
DRM is an insidious evil that does nothing but treat you like a thief, it stops all kinds of disability plugins from working, it stops your fair use rights, it breaks everything, you might find that because some driver doesn't work perfectly that you can't view content you paid for, or you may find that you can't legitimately copy something when you have the fair use right to. Even an action as simple as highlighting a couple of words and copying them to search about them may be removed. And the huge irony will be that this won't stop the pirates, it will only prevent paying users.
Sincerely, keep this out of HTML5, it just doesn't belong in a free web. If someone want's to write some proprietary thing to screw their customers then let them do that, but don't go forcing this stuff on everyone else so easily.
Try posting a message on a forum, you won't be able to because your IP address will be banned, because one person in thousands said something someone didn't like.
The only games I buy with DRM are ones that are on sale for ridiculously low prices (such as $5 or less). I refuse to pay full price for something I don't own.
Ditto
And why do the online and offline shops insist on cluttering up my shelves with material rubbish anyway, since no-one else can use it, they might as well just email me a code for my rental.
When you're driving you should be concentrating on driving, that's it, anything else can lead to an accident because your mind is not on the task at hand.
So, no, you shouldn't be pissing about sending texts, if you don't like it, get a bus/train where you can text to your hearts delight.
If you're so f**kin important that you need to text, then get a chauffeur.
Note that even his friend/partner in crime Sunde isn't willing to actually state in public he thinks the guy is innocent - rather telling.
From TFA:
Not surprisingly, fellow Pirate Bay co-founder Peter "brokep" Sunde called the charges against his friend "bullshit" on Twitter. However, he later clarified: "I'm not saying that Gottfrid is innocent (or guilty). But I'm seriously questioning the charges."
How has what you said any bearing on what the parent poster said? He is correct in that some of the people who seek a safe-haven from inflationary currencies are likely to buy bitcoins instead of buying gold. bitcoins being a better investment as they are deflationary.
I think my Galaxy Note II would easily match your dumb-phones battery life for the same usage scenario, it's the games, using maps and browsing the web that kill the battery.
I charged my phone yesterday, after 22 hours it's at 95% battery.
The Tunguska event created an explosion 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the meteor was smaller than 140m, estimated at 100m. That was over 100 years ago, Earth is a bit more populated now and a hit like that could easily wipe a large city of millions out.
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It's not a good point, if the packets were lost the first time round then they should simply be resent.
Because some people spend all day adding their commentary to the videos and they wish to be paid for that commentary. I think that's fair. They paid for the game, and the gamer videos double up as advertisements.
I don't buy games without checking out the game-play on youtube first (actual game-play, not trailers) and the commentary is a good indicator of whether the game is enjoyable.
So the gamers should get the lions share of the advertising revenue / Nintendo have fraudulently taken the gamers share(?).
I think you're being a bit hard on organised crime there.
Actually, given that you could extrapolate most people's identities from the data mentioned (postcode, gender and age), this sale would be illegal under EU data protection laws.
Try reading EU data protection laws sometime, we cant sign away our rights here.
So if poor people were paid more generously and hence paid more taxes, rich people wouldn't have to pay so much tax!!
I don't want that content if it is ruined by DRM.
They are a bunch of twisting lying agenda driven scumbags who concentrate on crime and terrorism far too much anyway, let them destroy themselves with DRM and perhaps something better will emerge.
Good, they can take their crap and stick it where I don't want it because if it's DRM'ed then I don't want it, so keep the DRM the hell away from my browser.
DRM is an insidious evil that does nothing but treat you like a thief, it stops all kinds of disability plugins from working, it stops your fair use rights, it breaks everything, you might find that because some driver doesn't work perfectly that you can't view content you paid for, or you may find that you can't legitimately copy something when you have the fair use right to. Even an action as simple as highlighting a couple of words and copying them to search about them may be removed. And the huge irony will be that this won't stop the pirates, it will only prevent paying users.
Sincerely, keep this out of HTML5, it just doesn't belong in a free web. If someone want's to write some proprietary thing to screw their customers then let them do that, but don't go forcing this stuff on everyone else so easily.
Precisely, please mod parent up.
Not just file-sharing.
Try posting a message on a forum, you won't be able to because your IP address will be banned, because one person in thousands said something someone didn't like.
A good VPN nicely bypasses all this kind of crap.
The only games I buy with DRM are ones that are on sale for ridiculously low prices (such as $5 or less). I refuse to pay full price for something I don't own.
Ditto
And why do the online and offline shops insist on cluttering up my shelves with material rubbish anyway, since no-one else can use it, they might as well just email me a code for my rental.
Oh and,
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-05/every-six-hours-nsa-gathers-much-data-stored-entire-library-congress
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/worlds-1st-exabyte-storage-system/1266
All US telephone conversations per day approx: 1.5 Petabytes
Fits easily.
Room for 2 years worth, or are you going to tell me US govt 3-letter agencies don't spend much on data centers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
If it was 1990 it would be totally reasonable to ask for documents to be submitted in WordPerfect format
Eh? No, it wouldn't.
When you're driving you should be concentrating on driving, that's it, anything else can lead to an accident because your mind is not on the task at hand.
So, no, you shouldn't be pissing about sending texts, if you don't like it, get a bus/train where you can text to your hearts delight.
If you're so f**kin important that you need to text, then get a chauffeur.
13 days vs. 15 days left on fresh milk isn't going to do you any harm.
Sainsburys UK, delivered groceries at 8pm including £3 worth of chicken which was supposed to be eaton that day, had to bin it grrrrrrr
And next up, GMO security guard trees which moo loudly when strangers pass.
Yeah, fuck due process, lets just go round shooting suspects. Fucking moron.
Note that even his friend/partner in crime Sunde isn't willing to actually state in public he thinks the guy is innocent - rather telling.
From TFA:
Not surprisingly, fellow Pirate Bay co-founder Peter "brokep" Sunde called the charges against his friend "bullshit" on Twitter. However, he later clarified: "I'm not saying that Gottfrid is innocent (or guilty). But I'm seriously questioning the charges."
No, not that telling.
Demand for bitcoins displaces demand for gold
Umm, no.
Gold has other uses
How has what you said any bearing on what the parent poster said? He is correct in that some of the people who seek a safe-haven from inflationary currencies are likely to buy bitcoins instead of buying gold. bitcoins being a better investment as they are deflationary.
I think my Galaxy Note II would easily match your dumb-phones battery life for the same usage scenario, it's the games, using maps and browsing the web that kill the battery.
I charged my phone yesterday, after 22 hours it's at 95% battery.
People are buying tablets, phablets, phones etc instead.
Windows 8 sucks.
Peoples computers are working, they don't need upgrading.
And PC sales declining != PCs are declining, what moron did this math? IT just means everyone's got one already.
The Tunguska event created an explosion 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the meteor was smaller than 140m, estimated at 100m. That was over 100 years ago, Earth is a bit more populated now and a hit like that could easily wipe a large city of millions out.
incorrect, you can buy pizza with bitcoins and the more popular bitcoin gets, the more places will accept it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22110345